This interactive online dialect atlas documents the geographical (and to some degree social) distribution of many features of the traditional dialects of English spoken in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Salvage, Newfoundland.
Shows regional distribution of 27 grammatical features from 69 coastal communities on the island.
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Four women in front of a house. Image courtesy Memorial University of Newfoundland Geography Collection.
Shows regional distribution of 31 pronunciation features from 69 coastal communities on the island.
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Henry Knee family portrait, Badger's Quay, 1939 / Gustav Anderson. Image courtesy The Rooms Provincial Archives.
Represents vocabulary of individuals involved in sea-based, land-based and trades-based occupations from 20 communities throughout Newfoundland and Labrador.
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A cooper standing with a Job Brothers & Co. No. 1 Herring barrel, March 1903. Image courtesy Memorial University of Newfoundland Maritime History Archive.
